to North American and European countries from the Far East (see “Advanced Programming Makes the Case for Reshoring Moldmaking Operations” in the December 2014 issue of Manufacturing Engineering,
http://tinyurl.com/p3fa9ul). Part of this revival in die/mold machining has been enabled due to speedier metal removal techniques with the VoluMill high-speed roughing engine in Cimatron’s CimatronE Version 12 software. With VoluMill, mold-and-die manufacturers get a critical piece of technology for mold and diemaking, said Ralph Picklo, vice president, sales, Cimatron Technologies Inc. “It’s relatively new technology,” Picklo said of the VoluMill roughing capabilities. “Everybody’s thought process is that it’s for produc- tion machining, and it’s not for production machin- ing—it’s for high-volume material removal. Whether you’re doing 100 parts, or you’re doing one part that you’re doing a lot of volume, it still cuts the roughing time in half.” Toolpath optimization for die/mold applications is beginning to catch on, Picklo said. “It’s amaz- ing technology but the mold industry is just starting to understand it; because the mold industry does
so much roughing and so much material removal, they’re used to using inserted cutters and replac- ing the inserts all the time. They’re not used to solid carbide cutters and what they can do. My customers that have tried it swear by it.”
NC and Machine Simulation Simulation within CAD/CAM systems also has upped its game, as more realistic and highly accurate visualizations are being incorporated into CAM soft- ware, such as the true G-code verifi cation in CAM- Works 2015 from Geometric Technologies (Scotts- dale, AZ, and Mumbai), and in the next-generation Universal Kinematic Machines (UKM) for multitask machining (MTM) in GibbsCAM 2015 software from Gibbs and Associates (Moorpark, CA). In July, CAM components developer Machine-
Works GmbH (Aachen, Germany) introduced its new ModuleWorks Simulation for the newer hybrid addi- tive/subtractive machine tools hitting the market. The ModuleWorks Simulation, available integrated into many popular CAM software systems, offers the abil- ity to simulate both additive and subtractive process- es to provide users with a complete simulation of the
Moldmaking operations are increasingly being reshored from the Far East, thanks in part to speedier CAD/CAM machining functionality. Vero Software’s recently updated VISI 21 software is shown performing a motion study simulation of a 3D mold tool with collapsing cores.
Image courtesy Vero Software
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